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Child* ; Fetal Growth Retardation* ; Growth Hormone* ; Humans

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Heart Valve Diseases* ; Heart Valves* ; Heart*

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Animals ; Cadmium Poisoning* ; Cadmium* ; Olfactory Mucosa* ; Rats*

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the prevalence rate of tbe concomitant; atopic diseases in the patients with allergic rhinitis and, concurrently, the incidence of the atopic diseases in the families of the patients. A total of 40 patients who were referred to the department of dermatology, Kang Nam St. Marys Hospital, for the confirmative examinations of allergic srhiniti were taken for this study. The results were as follows, 1. The prevalence rate of concomitant atopic dermatitis in the sample patients was 22.5% and that of concomitant bronchial asthma was 12. 5% The prevalence rate of concomitancy with both diseases was 2.5% and that of concomitancy with atopic dermatitis and/or bronchial asthma was 37.5%. 2. The frequency of the associated manifestations, in descending order, was allergic conjunctivitis (30%), urticaria or angioedema (25%), insect sting (22.5%), oral symptoms (5%), migrane or headache (5%), immediate drug reactions (2.5%) and gastrointestinal symptoms (2.5%).
Angioedema ; Asthma ; Conjunctivitis, Allergic ; Dermatitis, Atopic ; Dermatology ; Headache ; Humans ; Incidence ; Insect Bites and Stings ; Prevalence ; Rhinitis* ; Urticaria

Mercury had been an important constituent of the remedial drugs for last few centuries, but substantially replaced by more specific and effective mordern medicines. However, metalic mercury, tbe vestige of the last decades, has still been employed for the patients of scabies by the herbal doctors in Korea. Therefore, we have often experienced patients with such complications as exfoliative dermatitis following topical applications of metalic mercury or inhalation of the vapor. There are three major toxic chernical forms of mercury, such as metalic (ele- mental) mercury vapor, salts of the mercury, and organic mercur.'als. Metailc mercury is the most volatile of the inorganic forms of the metal, Inhalation of the vapor of the metalic mercury is very toxic, but ingestion of the globular forms is rarely harmful. Acute mercury poison.ng due to topical mercurials is very rare. This case was a such patient who showed the mercury poisoning can result from the percutaneous absorption of topically applied mercury. The patient was an 11 year-old schoolboy with scabies. Three days after topical applications on the whole body with the mixture of rneta,lic rnercury, phosphorus and perilla oil, as prescribed by a herbal doctor, he was suffered from headache, fever, facial flushing, sore throat, a,nd stomatitis for a few days, and then followed by exfoliative dermatitis, renal and bone marrow fa'.lures. However, bone marrow failure due to mercury was very rarely described in the literatures. Virtually, the whole body was covered by thick scales on the dirty greyish pigmented or erytheinatoas Cohfluent payules. It whs oozing on the external genital area, and all nails were spontaneously extracted. Tbe findings of renal failures included puffy face, ascites, BUN 92. 8 mg/dl, serum creatinine 7. 3 mg/dl. creat.nine clearance 12rnl/min., proteinuria, rnicro and gross hematuria, and non or poor visualizations of IVP. The peak in severity was at about 50 days after onset and bacame normal except mild proteinuria at about 70 days after onset. The findings of aplastic anemia were shown by pancytopenia(Hb 7. 6g/dl, WBC 1, 700, seg. neutro. 18%, lympho. 40% mono. 26%, eosino. 16%, Hct25%, thrombocytes 40, 000, RBC 3, 000, 000, reticulocytes 0. 1%) and about 20 per cent of the cellularity in bone marrow aspiration from about 70 to 90 days after onset. In fact, the aplastic anemia was coincided with nasal bleeding, staphylococcal septisema, and staphylococcal pustulation at the site of IM injection. However, the levels of onset 80 day-urine and blood rnercury were high: 208 ug/1. (norm.alless than 100 ug/l)in urine, and 126. 3 ug/100g (normal less than 5 ug/100g) in blood.
Anemia, Aplastic ; Ascites ; Blood Platelets ; Bone Marrow* ; Child ; Creatinine ; Dermatitis, Exfoliative* ; Eating ; Epistaxis ; Fever ; Flushing ; Headache ; Hematuria ; Humans ; Inhalation ; Korea ; Mercury Poisoning ; Perilla ; Pharyngitis ; Phosphorus ; Proteinuria ; Renal Insufficiency ; Reticulocytes ; Salts ; Scabies ; Skin Absorption ; Stomatitis ; Weights and Measures

Transcranial cerebral oximetry has been successfully used in a variety of neurosurgical conditions, primarily those associated with disturbed cerebral circulation. It has been also used in intraoperative monitoring of aortic dissection and surgical procedures performed under deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest. During disending aortic arch exposure, sudden cerebral oxygen saturation change from 63% to 48% was detected. After therapeutic bypass, cerebral oxygen saturation was increased to 65%. During aortic arch repair, deep hypothermic circulatory arrest with retrograde cerebral perfusion was applied for 130 min and cerebral oxygen saturation slowly decreased from 65% to 52%. Patient was discharged from hospital without neurologic complication and cognitive funtion disturbance.
Aorta, Thoracic ; Circulatory Arrest, Deep Hypothermia Induced ; Humans ; Hypothermia ; Monitoring, Intraoperative ; Oximetry ; Oxygen* ; Perfusion

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Esophageal Perforation*

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Peripheral Nerves* ; Regeneration*

Cancer-related facial pain refractory to pharmacologic management or nondestructive means is a major indication for destructive pain surgery. Stereotactic mesencephalotomy can be a valuable procedure in the management of cancer pain involving the upper extremities or the face, with the assistance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electrophysiologic mapping. A 72-year-old man presented with a 3-year history of intractable left-sided facial pain. When pharmacologic and nondestructive measures failed to provide pain alleviation, he was reexamined and diagnosed with inoperable hard palate cancer with intracranial extension. During the concurrent chemoradiation treatment, his cancer-related facial pain was aggravated and became medically intractable. After careful consideration, MRI-based stereotactic mesencephalotomy was performed at a point 5 mm behind the posterior commissure, 6 mm lateral to and 5 mm below the intercommissural plane using a 2-mm electrode, with the temperature of the electrode raised to 80degrees C for 60 seconds. Up until now, the pain has been relatively well-controlled by intermittent intraventricular morphine injection and oral opioids, with the pain level remaining at visual analogue scale 4 or 5. Stereotactic mesencephalotomy with the use of high-resolution MRI and electrophysiologic localization is a valuable procedure in patients with cancer-related facial pain.
Aged ; Analgesics, Opioid ; Electrodes ; Facial Pain* ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Morphine ; Palate, Hard ; Upper Extremity